Le Figaro investigates communities steeped in rationalism and effective altruism that fear AI could wipe out humanity while racing to build it. They feed AI labs with people, shared beliefs, money and influence reaching Washington.
New films about Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and AI are coming out. They arrive as public concern about the technology and the people leading it grows.
After OpenAI announced it had solved several hundred math problems, Fields medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin described a dismantling of his discipline. He is particularly worried about what AI means for young mathematicians.
Interconnects author Nathan Lambert explains why he doubts top industry researchers who expect AI to outperform them at their jobs within a few years. He anticipates fast progress, but not toward general superintelligence.
More than three dozen mathematicians told The Verge they were stunned by the volume of mathematical results OpenAI released this week. They expect it will take years to assess them fully.
The New York Times looks at Anthropic's effort to instill moral values in its AI, an undertaking it describes as part research and part evangelism.